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Childhood Chores

Bonkers1 — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:00:41 GMT

What childhood chore did you hate? Mine was dusting the mahogany dining room table - it had a million nooks and crannies.

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DJs mom — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:13:37 GMT

Cleaning the baseboards. I hated that. I guess because I was the youngest it was easier for me to be on the floor cleaning them. I still get flashbacks.

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I am still oxox — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:26:27 GMT

Makin my bed and putting my dishes in the sink before paper dishes

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Goldengate8361 — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:44:40 GMT

All of them! I usually found a way to get out of chores.

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SoCal Bred — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:50:34 GMT

During summer vacation from school if my sister or me mentioned that we were bored our Mom would bring out a sack of clothes to be ironed and in those days there was no steam iron, we had to sprinkle the clothes with water from a bottle that had a sprinkle cap on it, to this day I hate ironing😒!

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LyndaGee — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:55:09 GMT

Cleaning the litter boxes.  I've seen it all!

Cleaning the litter boxes. I've seen it all!

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Enufstuff — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:52:57 GMT

When I was high school age, I had to wash the dishes. I didn't

really like doing that.

When I was a little younger, I enjoyed washing the windows with Windex and I also liked dusting the furniture.

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chickenbutt — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:53:23 GMT

I had to cook, clean, do the laundry, etc, from the time I was very young but I think the one I hated the most was ironing!

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Still Raining — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:01:28 GMT

DISHES DISHES DISHES

You know when you and a sibling were assigned washing or drying? Someone is going to die 🤣

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Ainhisg — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:01:54 GMT

I hated mowing the yard and planting corn. Mom did all of the inside chores; we never had to do anything except set the table and sometimes dry the dishes. No big deal after mowing that huge lawn that we had with riding and push mowers (Have I said it was huge?) and planting row after row of corn. That was worse than the mowing although planting only took a day with the whole family helping.

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wagirl — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:04:43 GMT

I don't remember doing chores when I was a little kid--except for dishes and maybe setting the table--but I do remember being taught how to cook dinner for my fam and even used the old time Presto pressure cooker--I was in 5th grade when my mom went to work. then after that I did the laundry and cleaned the bathroom and straigtened up the house, watched my 2 younger brothers during the summer.

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Sooner — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:06:35 GMT

Mowing the yard. I didn't mind cleaning the stalls, feeding the horses, or loading seed and feed sacks, cooking or laundry. But I hated mowing the yard. We had a big yard.

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Laura14 — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:20:57 GMT

I see all of you and raise you weeding the flower beds in Spring and shoveling the driveway after every snow storm in Winter, only for the plow to come along and have to shovel the bottom part all over again.

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lgfan — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:22:37 GMT

I hated dusting.

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CANDLEQUEEN — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:25:27 GMT

cleaning the kitchen after dinner. All we really had to do, my sister and I was to scrape the plates-only 4 of us, and rinse them, stack them in the dishwasher, wash the pots and pans, and wipe down the table and counter tops...You would have thought we had to clean the whole house.......

I remember my dad checking to make sure every little bit was done too before we could go back outside.......lol........

I also as a teenager hated keeping my closet clean and organized! .

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occasionalrain — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:26:51 GMT

I'd set the table and sometimes clear it, but I liked doing that. Pretty silverware and China still appeal to me.

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timeless — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:36:14 GMT

Watering the plants at the front of the house. We had a rock garden no in-ground sprinklers. I was told to aim the hose at each plant and count to 100 then move to the next. I think we had over 20 plants and I found it soooo boring!

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Blondie59 — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:37:40 GMT

Everything! We all had to make our beds, clean our rooms. No dishwasher, so my sister would wash and I would dry the dishes after dinner every night ...for 8 of us.

thankfully, the boys mowed, raked leaves, shoveled and weeded. I was on dusting duty as well, and I too hated the baseboards and the railings going upstairs. The spindles were intricate and I think I got that job because my hands were small.

PS - looking at my railings now, and they could use a touch up!

Mom did the laundry and the ironing. To this day, I marvel how she got us all up each morning, school uniform blouses ironed, boys' ties tied, lunches made and everyone out the door for school.

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VanSleepy — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:42:51 GMT

Washing the stairs that led up to our second floor apartment (Chicago two flat). On hands and knees with a bucket of course. It was a little treacherous at the curving, narrow top.

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jlkz — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:43:51 GMT

My mom worked full time since I was in the 4th grade. So, at 9, I cooked for the family ( parents and younger twin sisters ), cleaned, scrubbed floors on hands and knees, dusted and ironed.

Ironed: school blouses for the three of us and my dad's work clothes. I haven't bought clothes that need to be ironed for decades and I am now 81.

Hate to this day: sewing...if I have to repair or repurpose panels ( for curtains ), I do it by hand. Learned the hard way to not use old thread, LOL !